Motivational Quotes

Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

29.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.